![]() ![]() To the west 2 of Thermopylae rises a high mountain inaccessible and precipitous, a spur of Oeta to the east of the road there is nought but marshes and sea. Yet it is not here but elsewhere that the way is narrowest, namely, in front of Thermopylae and behind it at Alpeni, which lies behind, it is but the breadth of a cart‑way, and the same at the Phoenix stream, near the town of Anthele. The pass through Trachis into Hellas 1 is at its narrowest fifty feet wide. These places are near together, so that each force could be informed of the other's doings and their nature is as I will now show.Īs touching Artemisium first: the wide Thracian sea draws in till the passage between the island of Sciathus and the mainland of Magnesia is but narrow and this strait leads next to Artemisium, which is a beach on the coast of Euboea, with a temple of Artemis thereon. P493 Artemisium in the territory of Histiaea. ![]() This pass then they were resolved to guard, and so stay the foreigners' passage into Hellas, while their fleet should sail to The counsel that prevailed was, that they should guard the pass of Thermopylae for they saw that it was narrower than the pass into Thessaly and moreover nearer home and for the path which brought about the fall of those Greeks at Thermopylae, they knew not even that there was one till they came to Thermopylae and learnt of it from the men of Trachis. ![]() III, with valuable notes),Īnd to the running commentary by How and Wells.Ĭartouches are links to in‑depth articles at Livius.Org or LacusCurtius.īeing come to the Isthmus, the Greeks consulted together how and where they should stand to fight, having regard to what was said by Alexander. ![]() In the left margin, links to Rawlinson's translation (Vol. The flags in the text are links to the Greek as printed on facing pages in the Loeb edition. ![]()
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